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“GETTING IN THE RING”
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1 Kings 18:17-40 New International Version (NIV)
17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of
Israel?”
18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied.
“But you and your
father’s family have.
You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and
have followed the Baals.
19 Now summon the people from all over Israel
to meet me on Mount Carmel.
And bring the four hundred and fifty
prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at
Jezebel’s table.”
20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets
on Mount Carmel.
21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long
will you waver between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow him;
but if Baal is God, follow him.”
But the people said nothing.
22 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets
left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets.
23 Get two bulls for
us.
Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it
into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.
I will prepare
the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it.
24 Then you
call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord.
The god who answers by fire—he is God.”
Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and
prepare it first, since there are so many of you.
Call on the name of
your god, but do not light the fire.”
26 So they took the bull given them
and prepared it.
Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon.
“Baal,
answer us!” they shouted.
But there was no response; no one answered.
And they danced around the altar they had made.
27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them.
“Shout louder!” he said.
“Surely
he is a god!
Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling.
Maybe
he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
28 So they shouted louder and
slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until
their blood flowed.
29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic
prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice.
But there was no
response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.”
They came to
him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down.
31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from
Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name
shall be Israel.”
32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the
Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs[a] of
seed.
33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the
wood.
Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it
on the offering and on the wood.”
34 “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again.
“Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time.
35 The
water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and
prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known
today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have
done all these things at your command.
37 Answer me, Lord, answer me,
so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are
turning their hearts back again.”
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood,
the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The
Lord—he is God!
The Lord—he is God!”
40 Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal.
Don’t let
anyone get away!”
They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down
to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
Biblical Geography
Boundary between Israel and Phoenicia
Sacred site
Mountain range stretches 30 miles from the outcropping into the Mediterranean southeast
toward Megiddo and stands at the NW end of the Valley of Jezreel.
Most likely at the base of the mountain as this was where most worship was done looking
up.
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